This category contains articles on setting up and organizing the gradebook, including creating columns, using schemas, setting up attendance, etc.

Articles (10)

Assigning Extra Credit

This article explains how to add extra credit to a course.

Course Attendance - Instructors

This article will walk you through how to set up and use Attendance in a Blackboard Ultra course.

Creating Columns in the Gradebook

This article explains how to create manually-graded columns, total points columns, weighted grade columns, and overall letter grade columns.

Displaying an Overall Letter Grade

This article explains how to set up the overall grade in the gradebook to display letter grades to students.

Grade Categories in the Gradebook

This article explains how categories in the gradebook work in Blackboard Ultra. Custom categories are available in addition to the standard assessment categories.

Gradebook Overview

You have immediate access to all your courses' grading tasks on the global grades page. You can quickly scan everything you need to grade without navigating to each course. Within your course, you can access the course grade book on the navigation bar.

Grading Schema in Gradebook

This article explains how to add a grading schema to the gradebook in Blackboard Ultra.

Organizing the Gradebook

This article shows you how to reorganize items in your Blackboard Ultra Gradebook

Setting Up the Overall Grade

This article explains how to set up the overall grade in Blackboard Ultra.